Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Wikipedia's use of the GFDL is already absurd. If
you want to
make any sense of things you have to look beyond the GFDL.
Dual licensing is not uncommon, with MySQL software often
mentioned as an example.
In a wiki without any mention of a license (I think
c2.com falls
in this category, and susning.nu certainly does), the wiki system
itself silently implies that articles can be edited and refactored
by other users, and that an entire text paragraph can be cut out
of one article and pasted into another within the same wiki.
People who save their contribution to any wiki can be assumed to
have agreed to this "implicit wiki license". In the case of
Wikipedia, this is de facto a dual licensing with GFDL, where the
implicit license includes recipies being moved to Wikibooks,
dictionary definitions being moved to Wiktionary, source texts
being moved to Wikisource, and articles being translated and
reused in other languages of Wikipedia. Because that is how the
system works, and you better know this when you contribute.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik -
http://aronsson.se